Essentials: Chapters 1 and 2 Vocab

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Define Government.

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The leadership or elite in charge of political institutions.

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Define Regime.

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The norms and rules regarding individual freedom and collective equality and the use of that power.

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Define State.

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A set of political institutions that generates and carries out policy and is imbued with sovereignty.

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Type of legitimacy built by habit and custom, stressing history and institutionalised.

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Traditional Legitimacy

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Type of legitimacy based on ideas and leader presence, weakly institutionalised.

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Charismatic Legitimacy

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Legitimacy based on rules, procedures, and institutional enforcement.

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Rational-Legal Legitimacy

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Definition of the behavioural revolution?

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A study that emphasises causality, explanation, and political behaviour.

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Causal relationship: Change in one variable causes change in another; simple cause and effect.

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Change in one variable causes change in another; simple cause and effect.

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Endogeneity:

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The issue that cause and effect are not clear.

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Institution based on official rules

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Formal Institution